The Frank Gibson Memorial Trophy for the biggest fish went to John Sparks with a 3lbs, 10oz F1 carp.

Some sections of the River Calder will be closed on Sunday for the opening round of this year's Calder League, which will draw at The Railway Inn in Brighouse at 9am.

Last week Mark Holmes got some outstanding catches of tench from Queen Mary's Ponds in Ripon.

He returned on Monday to catch a further 22 tench up to the weight of 5lbs, 14oz, with seven of those over the 5lb mark.

The best fish of the week to be caught from the venue though, was a 13lbs, 8oz bream which was pulled from the figure of eight lake.

Finally, the River Swale at Thornton Bridge is producing good catches of chub and barbel on ledgered meat.

Bradford City AA
The weather over the past fortnight has been very changeable, with a fair bit of rain and extra flow in the rivers, though the forecast for the coming weekend is warm and dry.
The opening of the river coarse fishing season has seen many reports of barbel and chub caught, especially from the Swale. However, returns appear to be a little patchy, with some lengths not as productive as others, and high water levels causing some concern. But Tom Caulfield, one of our members, reported a large dace from Cod Beck, on double red maggot with a maggot feeder full of mixed.

On the Dales rivers, we have hosted a number of anglers fishing lots we gifted, and they won, in the recent Wild Trout Trust fund-raising auction. Finding rivers in fishable condition posed a slight problem, but the upper Wharfe at Buckden saw fish rising well to small upwings, sedges and black fly and deer-hair emergers proved successful.

Later in the week, the upper Aire produced many fish to baetis nymphs, fished klink-and-dink style, including grayling to 2lb, to the same guests.
Another pair of auction-winners also fished, both experienced anglers whose home waters are much slower streams, who found Yorkshire rivers much to their taste, with over 30 fish each. Biggest was a 2.75lb trout from our Buckden stretch on the Wharfe.

Separately, Jon Grey found time for an hour on the club water on the Ure above Aysgarth. The river was a good height and the trout looking up, with an IOBO fly bringing some good fish to hand.
'Slopey' Slopes, fishing at our Shipton Lake on Sunday night, caught a fantastic 24lb 8oz mirror. The very next day, heavy rain brought on spawning by the carp, which is expected to continue in the warm weather forecast over the coming weekend. Under these circumstances, we earnestly ask anglers not to fish for carp or disturb spawning activity, and/or fish the field side away from the lilies, to leave them in peace.

Away from the fishing, we are sorry to report that persons unknown have stolen padlocks and chains from gates from Inghey Bridge. These were attached securely to wooden and stone posts with coach bolts, which clearly required major force to remove them. If anyone can shed light on the culprits, then please do tell any member of the BCAA Committee, for them to pursue that with the police.

We have also walked the Aire at Bradley and reported several Giant Hogweed for spraying. A working party is planned for 3pm on Thursday, July 4 to pull himalayan balsam and ragwort, to fulfil our contracts with local farmers on parts of the river we rent from them. If anyone can help out for a few hours, then please call Jim on 07940-814431 for further information.

Skipton Horse Trials this week will disrupt access down Heslaker Lane to the fishing we share with Skipton AA at Carleton, and access to our own fishing at Funkirk.

Meanwhile, an angler is reported to have caught and killed a salmon from our Skirbeck beat on the Ribble this week, in contravention of our 100 per cent catch and release policy. Club rules provide for offenders to be banned for two years if caught taking fish, so all anglers have been warned!

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